PROVIDING CREATIVE TRAINING SOLUTIONS
 Aviation has become a remarkably safe way to travel; it’s now safer to fly a mile
than to drive a mile. ATC believes systematic training saves lives.
But how did aviation get to be a reliable and relatively safe way to travel? And what does this mean for training health care professionals?
The answers are found in a sophisticated approach to training--one that can be adapted
to training health care professionals, with a solid return on investment.
ATC Experience in Training Health Care Professionals
Ophthalmology
ATC is working with the National Retina Institute in the Baltimore-Washington area ( www.bmgnri.com). The main effort has been focused on developing aviation-style (systematic) curriculum and courseware to leverage the capability of a virtual reality surgical simulator, VRMagic’s EyeSi®. This led to a joint research project in which 45 participants (residents, fellows and attending surgeons) practiced removing an epiretinal membrane on the EyeSi®. Each participant attempted the virtual surgery, then viewed a presentation that was either a standard presentation on ERM surgery or prototype systematic courseware. After that, each participant attempted the same surgery again. The results include performance metrics from the simulation and attitude assessments of the courseware.
Anesthesiology
ATC is currently working with the anesthesiology department at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington D.C. (http://www.usuhs.mil/ane/). This Graduate Medical Education program is working to develop systematic curriculum and simulations for critical incident management training. Runciman et al developed 25 algorithms to help manage critical incidents, based on their analysis of over 4,000 incidents.* The objective of this pilot effort is to develop curriculum and simulation to train all 25 algorithms using mobile simulation for in-hospital training.
*http://qshc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/3/e1?etoc
“For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when
they were going into action.”
— Thucydides,
'The History of the Peloponnesian War,' circa 404 BC |
